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Country Music Star Suffers Massive Heart Attack after Performance
Daily Fetched ^ | April 7, 2024 | Jason Walsh

Posted on 04/08/2024 7:23:59 AM PDT by Red Badger

Country music singer and rapper Colt Ford was rushed to hospital shortly after his performance in Arizona on Thursday after suffering a heart attack.

The “Dirt Road Anthem” star was playing at Dierks Bently’s Whiskey Row when he suddenly suffered a heart attack and is now in the intensive care unit at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa in critical condition.

The singer, who has several No. 1 hits under his belt, has worked with other stars, including Jake Owen, Walker Hayes, Chase Rice, Toby Keith, Lady A, and Willie Nelson.

The Blaze reported:

It appears this is not the first time Ford has suffered from health issues. In 2022, he was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis, which is a chronic muscular autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness. Ford said the illness affected his eye more than it did his throat or face.

“It hadn’t really affected my throat, but it really affected my eye. I had no control over my right eye,” Colt shared with Taste of Country in 2023.

“It really messes with your vision. I could see perfectly out of either eye, but then I would look together and I’d see three of you and you would be melting together like a lava lamp.”

Just a year before that, Ford was diagnosed with eye cancer but avoided having to undergo chemotherapy because it was detected early on, according to People Magazine.

“The doctor told me I was a week to 10 days from having to go on full chemo.”

He underwent surgery following the diagnosis and performed just a few days later. Ford was reportedly a professional golfer before he ultimately turned to country music and hip-hop.

Though Ford was set to perform at two other venues — in Nevada and Arizona — the shows have been canceled.

Ford has previously said:

“I know darn well that God never puts anything on you that you can’t handle, but the Lord might have a lot more confidence in me than I thought."


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Health/Medicine; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: music

1 posted on 04/08/2024 7:23:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
The three most probably causes are:

1. clot shot, or
2. knew too much on the Clintons, or
3. said that Nashville should ban alcohol.

2 posted on 04/08/2024 7:27:17 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Red Badger

country music and rapping is a dangerous mix.


3 posted on 04/08/2024 7:28:22 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Red Badger

One Booster to go, please.


4 posted on 04/08/2024 7:31:28 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Red Badger

Safe and Effective.


5 posted on 04/08/2024 7:39:08 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: Red Badger

Colt Ford... Awesome name for a country star. Sorry to say that I’ve never heard of him. The last good country star that I remember was George Jones.


6 posted on 04/08/2024 7:39:16 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Red Badger

And ya wanna bet???


7 posted on 04/08/2024 7:40:01 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: Red Badger

Drugs or the clot shots. The ONLY 2 choices.

I’m going with the shots.


8 posted on 04/08/2024 8:00:06 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Red Badger
Country music singer and rapper

That sounds incongruent.

9 posted on 04/08/2024 8:01:06 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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To: Tell It Right

Coke’s a bitch


10 posted on 04/08/2024 8:10:06 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: xoxox

“country and rapping is a dangerous mix.”

Difficult, too. Not many cool words rhyme with dog, truck, prison, train, Muskogee, etc.


11 posted on 04/08/2024 8:19:12 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Red Badger

Colt does not look like a very healthy man.

Chemo can wreck your heart...and a lot of other organs because of its acute toxicity.

Being heavy doesn’t help either.

I feel bad for the man having as many issues as he does.


12 posted on 04/08/2024 9:21:03 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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